Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jimmy Carter sometimes did. But he has not shown the capacity of his model, John F. Kennedy, to disarm critics with self-deprecation. J.F.K., for instance, defused the issue of his family's heavy spending in the 1960 election by telling his audience that he had received a wire from his father: "Dear Jack, Don't buy one more vote than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide." Frank Mankiewicz suggests that Hart could turn the age-change issue into a joke simply by beginning a speech with a statement...
...first, in the euphoria of clearing minefields and barbed-wire fences," says Jerusalem's city engineer and chief planner, Amnon Niv, "we shared the conventional modern planning wisdom that progress comes rushing down on a network of superhighways and that affluence shoots up only in skyscrapers." Jerusalem's mayor, Teddy Kollek, recalls that David Ben-Gurion, who had been Israel's first Prime Minister, even talked of demolishing the Old City wall to make Jerusalem free and open...
...consequence of even a conventional war. European conventional forces represented a similar political decision: they too were conceived as a trip wire for our nuclear riposte. From the birth of NATO a full conventional defense has been part neither of its strategy nor of its efforts...
...From Wire Dispatches...
Grace deFries ran a victorious 800 meters in 2:12.46. She accelerated at the start. And then she ran a bit faster. Finally, deFries sprinted to break the wire ahead of the field...